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McKinsey on Society

About Us

Our latest thinking on some of the world’s most difficult societal challenges

McKinsey on Society is the online publishing site for McKinsey’s Social Sector Office. Here is where we draw together research efforts and insights from across the firm, which relate to some of the most pressing issues of our time – Global Health, Economic Development, Education, Social Innovation and Sustainability. Our goal is to create an online platform that houses all of our related reports, articles and multimedia content in a way that is informative and engaging.

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The Social Sector Office helps the world’s leading institutions address chronic, complex societal challenges. We draw on the best of McKinsey’s expertise to strengthen our clients’ ability to deliver meaningful and sustainable social change. The purpose of McKinsey on Society is to capture some of the lessons and insights from our work.
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Voices on Society aims to convene thinkers from around the world to offer their perspectives on the world’s most complex societal challenges The viewpoints are diverse and provocative. They come from academia and established organizations as well as from those on the frontiers of new thinking and new methodologies.

Each volume focuses on a new challenge, bringing an array of rich content to bear, whether the issue is providing education for young people in Africa, healthcare to new mothers in India, or controls on the emission of greenhouse gases in the developed world. We hope that by providing a global perspective and a variety of viewpoints, new solutions can emerge.

Bringing these perspectives to you, our audience, is only part of the goal. We also want to provide a forum where the worldwide community of social innovators, non profits, and all individuals passionate about creating change can come together to discuss, debate and collaborate on new ways of addressing societal problems. Voices on Society is a place where our audience can engage, through robust commenting and other interactive elements including debates, polls, quizzes and crowd-sourced content. We invite you to join this vital conversation.